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HIGHLIGHTS of the 2013 SELECTED NEW TITLES Recent Additions to the Library Collection Contents Legislative Library Services ..............................................................................................................................1 Librarian’s Picks ................................................................................................................................................2 Selected New Titles for 2013 ..............................................................................................................................4 Aboriginal Peoples ...........................................................................................................................................4 Agriculture and Food ........................................................................................................................................4 Biography .........................................................................................................................................................4 Climate Change ................................................................................................................................................5 Culture, Sports and Tourism .............................................................................................................................5 Economics, Finance and Taxation ....................................................................................................................5 Education and Training ....................................................................................................................................5 Emergency Planning .........................................................................................................................................6 Environment, Energy and Natural Resources ...................................................................................................6 Health ...............................................................................................................................................................6 Heritage and History .........................................................................................................................................6 International Issues ...........................................................................................................................................7 Labour and Employment ..................................................................................................................................7 Law and Justice ................................................................................................................................................7 Management and Leadership ............................................................................................................................8 Politics and Government ..................................................................................................................................8 Social Issues .....................................................................................................................................................8 Transportation ...................................................................................................................................................9 Web 2.0.............................................................................................................................................................9 Selected Manitoba Heritage Titles for 2013 ...................................................................................................10 Aboriginal Peoples ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Agriculture and Food ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Biography ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Children’s Books ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Culture, Sports and Tourism .......................................................................................................................... 10 Environment, Energy and Natural Resources ................................................................................................ 10 Health ............................................................................................................................................................ 10 Heritage and History ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Manitoba Fiction and Literature .................................................................................................................... 11 Social Issues .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Transportation ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Request Form .................................................................................................................................................... back MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT 2013 1 Legislative Library Services BORROWING FROM THE LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY COLLECTION All legislative and Government of Manitoba employees can borrow circulating materials with a Legislative Library card. Simply contact the library if you want one. Use our catalogue to explore our collections of books, government reports, and Manitobiana. With your library card and the online catalogue, you can request, borrow, or renew, books and reports from your desktop. If we do not own the book or article you want, we can arrange to borrow it for you from another library. For your convenience, requested items can be sent through Interdepartmental Mail. The library collection includes publications in areas such as political and social sciences, policy and programs, economics, public administration and management, law and legislation, and Manitoba heritage and history. The library has an unequalled collection of Manitoba government publications, and is the legal deposit library for titles published in Manitoba. The library has the largest collection of Manitoba newspapers anywhere. Selected New Titles is regularly published to alert Manitoba government personnel to newly acquired materials. Many of the Legislative Library’s services are available through our website, including our Digital Collection of Manitoba Government Publications, the Manitoba Government Publications Monthly Checklist, Selected Government Links and other E-Resources For more information, visit the Legislative Library website at www.manitoba.ca/leglib, check out the Library’s You Ask, We Answer brochure for government employees, or contact us at [email protected]. 2 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT 2013 Librarian’s Picks Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark : the West versus the rest since Confederation / Mary Janigan. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2012. xii, 426 p. From Random House Inc.: The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's other great national debate: but as the conflict over natural resources and their effect on climate change heats up, 150 years of antipathy are coming to a head. Janigan takes readers back to a pivotal moment in 1918, when Canada's western premiers descended on Ottawa determined to control their own future--and as Margaret MacMillan did in Paris 1919, she deftly illustrates how the results reverberate to this day. On the edge : mapping North America's coasts / Roger M. McCoy. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. ix, 251 p. From Choice Reviews (2013 January): This delightful and engaging historical geography is much more about exploring coasts than mapping them. Maps, of course, manifest political, military, and economic power; they assign claims to territories and their strategic locational attributes and resources. Accurate maps depended upon getting somewhere first, at least in a fashion that allowed one to record latitude and longitude with some reliability. What McCoy (emer., Utah) does well is to compile a chronology of several centuries of European mariners' exploits reproduced or imagined by cartographers, and to do so in a single coherent narrative and set of maps of consistent scale to illustrate the accumulation of cartographic knowledge of North American coasts up to the early 20th century. […] The author's writing is crisp, and the book is an accessible, enjoyable read. MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT 2013 3 How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character / Paul Tough. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2012. xxiv, 231 p. From Booklist Reviews (2012 September): Debunking the conventional wisdom of the past few decades that disadvantaged children need to develop